Sanae Takaichi is indeed Japan's first female Prime Minister but by effectively cock-blocking beloved Princess Aiko from ever becoming the Emperor of Japan, she has sent her support plummeting.
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Technically, Princess Aiko is not Japan’s future empress. An empress is generally the woman married to an emperor. Yet, Aiko, the daughter and only child of the current Emperor and Empress, is the woman a large majority of Japanese people appear willing to see become emperor. In the conservative world of Japanese politics this is different in the way t…
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